The inbetween time

Interesting time right now.

Finished up at Michve Eilon... with a big long ceremony (well practiced for--literally practiced for days. The sunburn v on my chest goes to prove that)
Quite a fun/weird last few days. Aside from all the ceremony marching practice we also had our long expected day of distance; or in this case more of an hour of distance. Basically where we find out that our Mefakdot are indeed human. Surprise surprise, their regular girls our age. Mine ended up being both 20... so that was indeed a surprise.
For the rest of the period that we were at Michve our Mefakdot became celebrities of sorts. EVERYONE wanted a photo with their mefakdot.

I being my super "i think i'm too cool" way, only got one mefakedet...but better than none right?
Photo on the left is me>mefakedet (jessica) > Eris (friend from Norway!)

After the ceremony, in a state of high we received long awaited papers stating jobs. Though in the case of Mahal people we received papers saying: "go to Bokom (place i originally went to for medical test, interview...all that). What it also said though. was that i'm Lochemet. I PASSED THE GIBBUSH.
Funnily enough i didn't fully comprehend for the first minute. Until Mefakedet (jessica...too weird to call her straight out Jessica) said "eh louise, you can smile you know." i didn't stop smiling for the next hour or two! Grinning like a lunatic really.

Still to go i have my interview on sunday. There i need to tell them exactly where i want to go, that i am completely set on Oketz and blah blah blah.  SO, not all set yet.

What else. OH yeah. Gaza.

So, on Wednesday Idf launched Operation Pillar of Defence. Since then, 550 rockets have been launched towards Israel.. 4 of those to Tel Aviv.
You wouldn't know it at all, Tel aviv has a very special Tel Aviv bubble. As in, normal life continues...If you didn't have the news you wouldn't know anything was happening at all. That is, except for the sirens. And, on that note..only heard 1 of them (i think there were 3). Their really not very loud at all. The second siren we had the music too loud, and then the third just 2 hours ago, we were in the parking lot of Dizengoff Mall. Drove along thinking "there do appear to be alot of people down hear near the stairwell...don't think there was a siren do you?". Yep.


So, right now just hanging at Daniels. Reason i haven't gone back to my place in Petach Tikva..Well laziness mostly! Though, if i do go back, my room is a bomb shelter so i'm all set!

Keep you updated!!
Lots of love, Louise.


OH> forgot to mention (how horrific) I saw Julie and Tony for Friday, Sat and Sunday (yep, got the day off sunday) Was really lovely to see them. We didn't really get up to too much, but was lovely all the same. All though, of course was a bit awkward. In jerusalem they stayed in a hotel with signs all over "welcome to Palestine." "Tour Palestine". Fine usually, but i rocked up in my army uniform. Hmmm. Wasn't actually an issue but i wouldn't like to try it again today. Not with the whole Palestine issue happening. That's a bit interesting.